Comrades! In response to your inquiry as to whether we consent to the publication of our names in the protocols of the Second Congress, we hereby inform you that for our part we have decidedly no objection to this, but we do not take it upon ourselves to decide how far this is permissible from conspiratorial considerations in the interests of our comrades in Russia. The decision of this question concerning conspiratorial security depends upon the appropriate party authority.

Geneva, October 4, 1903

First published in 1927 in Lenin Miscellany VI

Printed from the manuscript